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Loveless (Re-mastered By Kevin Shields) (2CD) | 
 enlarge | Artist: My Bloody Valentine
Label: SonyBMG
Category: Music
List Price: £15.99
Buy New: £8.98
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Rating:  59 reviews
Sales Rank: 5898
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
UPC: 886973121122
EAN: 0886973121122
ASIN: B00197X1V8
Release Date: January 26, 2009 (In 55 Days)
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Not yet released
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| Tracks:
| • | Only Shallow | | • | Loomer | | • | Touched | | • | To Here Knows When | | • | When You Sleep | | • | I Only Said | | • | Come In Alone | | • | Sometimes | | • | Blown A Wish | | • | What You Want | | • | Soon |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
After My Bloody Valentine had undergone their massive metamorphosis from twee indie-poppers to guitar noiseniks on 1988's Isn't Anything, their eagerly anticipated follow-up was a long time coming. Rumours abounded of massive studio bills, and when the album finally arrived, it listed 18 engineering credits. At times, Loveless is 90 per cent pure studio overmatter--but that doesn't matter. Band leader Kevin Shield's element was the guitar overdub, creating an intoxicating headrush of varispeed, warped, electro-static effects. "To Here Knows When" remains unmatched as an experiment in just how much sonic dissonance a simple pop melody can bear, while Bilinda Butcher sings drowsily as if concussed by the sweet noise. Loveless isn't a case of form over content--the lyrical subject matter of dazed infatuation is perfectly illustrated by the snowblind guitar sound. After this, MBVmoved to Island and remained notoriously unproductive for years, perhaps unsure how to top this. --David Stubbs
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| Customer Reviews: Read 54 more reviews...
 BLOODY FRUSTRATING November 26, 2008
I paid for this months ago and have since cancelled it because I'm not convinced it will ever be released. It was getting reviewed in music mags; and then the news broke that there needed to be more "tinkering". When this album was originally released, it delivered an awesome and phenomenal sound-- but it is in need of remastering. So when are you gonna let go, Kevin, and stop torturing your fans?
lightweight November 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I first bought this record when it originally came out following rave reviews at the time. I was scratching my head back then, wondering if I'd missed something, 'cos it's just strum-a-long indie pop with weird guitar effects. Best part of two decades later I still think the emperor has no clothes. I think the whining pitch of it's clinging sound is like a needy adolescent: kinda intriguing, but ultimately limited and frustrating, with nothing really to say yet. Talented yes, but I just want people to be wary of the masterpiece spin going on hear.
 Release Date?!?! September 28, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I love this record, adore it. It is the kind of record you want to live inside, forever. But at the moment i don't care about any of that stuff, i just want to buy it. KEVIN SHIELDS / SONY, WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO RELEASE THIS ALBUM?!?!?!
A masterpiece of 90s music March 12, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is an incredible album right from the cover. A magenta double exposed, out of focus guitar. It sums up the conflict between noise and beauty that is central to the album and makes it so thrilling. I think the comparisons with Sonic Youth are misleading. The noise that Sonic Youth produce, eventually leads nowhere on many of their albums. Their best album Daydream Nation, great though it is, does not have the adventure or beauty of Loveless. Alongside OK Computer, this is arguably the best album of the 1990s and possibly the last 25 years.
Sheer sonic "bliss". February 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Shame this can only be given a five-star rating. I made the effort to discover this record only after seeing that it was number two on an excellent list of 100 cult classics, as compiled by the "Vulture" for The Times. Figured that it had to be worthy of inspection. Virtually nothing could have prepared me for this, the very strangest of listening experiences.
In its way, this is almost certainly the most BEAUTIFUL and MOVING record i have in my entire collection. It really is the most extraordinary soundscape that you're ever likely to meet. Something to play in a room, when you're absolutely all by yourself, with the lights turned off and the volume cranked all the way up. Nowhere more so than on "Soon", which is possibly the greatest closing track since "Tomorrow Never Knows" on "Revolver". Such a fabulous record that you simply won't know what to play immediately afterwards.
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